Game overview Among Nobles is a card game where players establish and expand a family dynasty in feudal Europe. Players control some of the most iconic and influential figures in European history. Using their unique abilities cunningly is crucial in the fierce competition between the leading noble houses. The game is won and lost in the intricate interaction between war, strategic marriages and influence at court. Each player starts with a lord and his lady and will bring generations of their family to life through birth and marriage. As the game progresses, more powerful nobles come into play. Three generational changes occur in which the oldest generation perishes due to old age. Players advance their influence in the game by waging war, earning gold and expanding their family. Gold is used to buy extra actions, pay for wedding feasts, muster armies and pay for the education and finer upbringing of male heirs. Armies are used to wage war, bringing riches and prestige back from distant provinces. Prestige points are a measure of your influence on society. The player with the most prestige points at the end wins the game. Players take turns activating one of their characters or couples. An activation lets you pick a series of actions in a horizonal row on the character. As a wife’s actions are added to her husband’s, activating couples can be more effective than activating single characters. Most daughters get married off to other families, while the sons continue your family’s bloodline. Games can be won and lost because of the right or wrong marriages.
Game components • 1 rule book. • 60 character cards: ·· 6 ancestral ladies, ·· 6 ancestral lords, ·· 16 age I characters, ·· 16 age II characters, ·· 16 age III characters.
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• 9 province cards. • 5 game overviews. • 1 first player card. • 45 gold pieces. • Prestige point tokens: ·· 50 of 1 prestige points, ·· 50 of 5 prestige points.
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• Player tokens in each of the 5 player colours (black, white, orange, purple, grey): ·· 3 action tokens (disks) , ·· 10 army tokens (cubes). There is no limit on gold pieces, prestige point tokens and army tokens. In case you run out of any of these tokens, use any substitute you like; always assume that these tokens have unlimited availability. While the the amount of gold and armies in each player’s supply is open information, players should keep their prestige point tokens face down to conceal the exact amount.
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